Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57c788e5aa189466…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 09:00:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 88a8ca72b690c281b89e8ddc5cd54871 SHA-1: 7701dba9718d2518eaaea4e62932d53eb3839cfd SHA-256: 57c788e5aa1894665235c46ebceed3469c3951305327011fb3abacb231ed6f2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF structure itself is also flagged for suspicious object definitions, further supporting its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-11/20210911215434250408.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/pidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maekuangudomthara.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovinubuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuvasarkar.org/userfiles/file/26070705678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusauto.hu/kepek/file/wozuwilafezuvonabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/xesidaniziwixigutinadamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131fdbf1489b---josutofenijaxilinibujapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/pipedima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://longislandinvestmentadvisors.com/nini/userfiles/file/gaxasusapifub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foodthings.us/userfiles/file/53239007567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://permagnet.com/upload_files/file/210912011930713986gcoo10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94036060604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochemical.com/upload/files/44551584328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zededunekolepedewiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovecollection.com/royal/admin/images/products/file/71645095011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naso10.com/userData/board/file/lorubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samwha.com/upload/userfiles/file/susarajipedimejowojotoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161382760c8e43---dexusegegumujepudivolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161375f27098de---milafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/44620354075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/lufokedajibakad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/34821595817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3phjju83k5fr64i8vlm0cokok0/vesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/neruxebinebopateredopewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/tixegibimisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navoloki.mebel18.com/uploads/files/37528622908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=peliculas+del+viejo+oeste+en+espanolPDF link annotation
    • http://zs.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90432886647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b7cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7CB 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 75c4b7ee8dddd0adf7d2c0246e8d70fc5e485688c7e3a89733d87b5bcb2a170c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000faf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF7 10704 bytes
SHA-256: ca240275ffadc47bb30cb14510fab470daee9bcde00a0e2a3c1c1a5e16da521f